Adjustable bushing.



No.-7oo,o|4. Patent@ may I3, 1902.

`s. P. Buck. ADJUSTABLE BUSHING.

(Application vled Aug. 19, 1901,.) (nu loam.)

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UNITED STATE-s PATENTY OFFICE.

STERLING P. BUCK, OF FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA.

ADJUSTABLE BUSHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,014, dated May 13, 1902. Application led August 1.2, 1901. Serial No. 71,828. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, STERLING P. BUCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Front Royal, in the county of Warren and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Bushings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable bushings which are adapted for application in allsituations where an adjustable bushing is desired. A

My invention is hereinafter shown as a separate bushing adapted to be used in connection with bearing-,cups as illustrative of one of the uses to which the bushing may be applied and also the bushing as a separate device independent of the application thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved adjustable bushing. Fig. 2 isa transverse sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of a bearing-cup with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 4L v is a cross-sectional view of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable bushing consisting of any desired metal,- which may be united either by soldering or by brazing, according to the requirements. Y

In the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates a strip of suitable metal wound in the form of a ring and the strip united by means of soldering, braz-ing, or otherwise for the purpose of holding the strip into a compact bushing. When it `is desired to regulate either the internal or external size of the bushing, it is only necessary to roll off or pull sufficient of the strip away from the ring, as indicated,

to bring the bushing to the desired size. In

some cases it may be necessary to use a key, as illustrated, for the purpose of rolling the strip away from the compact ring, and especially when the strip is composed of steel and is brazed. Preferably the strip of which the bushing is formed is either soldered or brazed at the edge, as indicated at 2, which will be found amply sufficient to hold the strip into a compact bushing, whether it be soldered or braze'd. l

In Fig. 1 I show the bushing as being attached to the member 3 it is adapted to be used in connection with. In that figure it is shown as being attached to a bearing-cup for the purpose of regulating theexterior diameter ofthe cup, and thus adapting it to fit openings of various sizes.

While I only show the bushing as applied to a bearing-cup, it will be readily understood that an adjustable bushing of this nature is adapted to uses inlother connections, and I do not therefore limit my invention to the use of the bushing for bearing-oups.

When the bushing is made'as a separate device and is not connected with the part to which it is applied, both the internal and eX- ternal diameter of the bushing are readily adj usted by the removal of the strip.

, Thron gh the mediumof an adjustable bushing of the form herein shown and described the repairer or other person having use for such a device is enabled to readily and quickly adjust the'size of the member to which it is applied or to-adj ust the size of ythe bushing to be itselfplaced in an opening and to also receive the member it is intended to properly support in the opening inwhich it is placed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i l; An adjustable bushing or packing consisting of a strip of thin dat metal wound in thel form of a roll and solder connecting the edges of said strip, substantiallyas described.

2. An adjustable bushing or Apacking consisting of a strip of thin iiat flexible metal wound in the form of a roll and the edges of said strip soldered together, whereby a bushing or packing is formed with smooth solid ends, substantially as described. v f 3. The combination with a bearing-cup, of an adjustable bushing consisting of a thin lat flexible strip of metal wound upon saidcup and solder connecting the edges of saidstrip, whereby a bushing is formed -with smooth solid ends, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. j

` STERLING P, BUCK. Witnesses:

M. F. HANSBROUGH, f

L. F. HANsBRoUGH. 

